Review Panel Faults Federal Plan to Remove Protections for Wolves

posted Mar 7, 2014, 5:59 PM by chloe owens

2/7/14, by Julie Cart, LA Times

Review panel
faults federal plan to remove protections for wolves

The federal proposal to remove endangered species
protections for all gray wolves in the lower 48 states came under fire Friday
from a scientific peer review panel that unanimously found that the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service’s decision does not reflect the best available science
regarding wolves.